Kris Arden

What a majestic floof! A queen, absolutely purrfect

Hey Revelers! The meet the editor sessions for #RevPit are happening this week. Here’s the schedule. Mine is on Friday. You can ask me about anything from my editorial style to my wishlist and beyond. 💜💎💌

Loved this story so much. Epistolary + weird cozy horror is my jam, thanks @breewernicke.bsky.social!

Bureau of Prisons: February 19, 2026 PURPOSE AND SCOPE To establish professional guidelines for the mental health evaluation and treatment of inmates meeting the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria (GD) to assist their progress toward recovery, while reducing or eliminating the frequency and severity of symptoms and associated negative outcomes.

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.

MC: depressed pacifist vampire
Antag: beloved bloodthirsty sister
Bonus Villain: manipulate mansplain manslaughter

If you’re on the fence about #RevPit, I’m always tempted to say you have nothing to lose + everything to gain. Which is true.

But I also want to acknowledge that there are genuine reasons not to enter. So, I present you:

Reasons Not to Enter the RevPit Annual Contest 🧵

I feel like midlist SFF is both vitally important and uniquely threatened right now because the midlist is where you find most of the queer, PoC, and otherwise marginalized authors. As well as a lot of really exciting books trying new things! Stuff that's not a "safe bet" but often a great read

A digital drawing of author Maia Kobabe, a white nonbinary person with short brown hair wearing a patterned blue shirt, who scowls while holding up a copy of eir book GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR. Maia is saying: H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban my books, and any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps and say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!

Get Ready for Common Bonds 3 - An Anthology of Aromantic SFF From Claudie Arseneault - Get Ready for Common Bonds 3 - An Anthology of Aromantic SFF

hey have you seen the Common Bonds 3 teaser page? Have you seen the colour scheme on our image? 👀 have you maybe hit the fancy yellow button to follow the project 👀👀

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very cool! I missed aol but loved livejournal

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Coming soon: Phantasms & Phenomena: An Aspec Paranormal Anthology Presenting 'Phantasms & Phenomena', an upcoming collection of aromantic and asexual paranormal short stories

If you like:
- aromantic and asexual rep
- paranormal stories
- supporting queer indie authors

You should go to our Kickstarter page and hit 'Notify Me On Launch' right now so you don't miss our launch day!

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Aw thank you and same to you!

Ah yep, but if you finished 15 days early there’s so much time for revisions!

Woohoo, congrats!! I’m astonished at how quickly you write and it’s great you have so much time for revisions!

Haha yes Prom is so done

CARELESS WHISPERS ROMANTIC SUSPENSE 97K WORDS 2 photos of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and a small moodboard entitled The Vibes. Dialogue: 'She went under, literally, like a stone. Those seconds were the worst of my life.' Olympia meets Listy's eyes. 'But something inside me was saying, don't let her come up, don't let her come up. She's been drinking, they'll think it was an accident.’

𝒅𝒖 𝑴𝒂𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑹𝑬𝑩𝑬𝑪𝑪𝑨 𝒙 𝑵𝒆𝒕𝒇𝒍𝒊𝒙'𝒔 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑷𝑬𝑹𝑭𝑬𝑪𝑻 𝑪𝑶𝑼𝑷𝑳𝑬

They're like family to her, but when a death begins looking like murder, a PR exec must decide how far she'll go to protect them. They all have a motive. Especially the man she's in love with. The dead woman's husband.

#WSPitQ #WSPit #Q #A #R #M

Thank you!! I was like, the thing that will give me most joy is writing as my characters, so let’s do that

Aw thank you from owl to owl! I had a lot of fun being silly with this

The Cold War x Time Travel

When an intelligence agent is framed for the UK's role in a temporal disaster, he must clear his name and seal a lethal time rift - before a Russian spy from the future gets everyone killed.

#WSPit #WSPitQuerying #Q #A #T #SF #Hi #revpit

The Best Kisser in Prague

Amid the post-Revolution chaos of 1994 Prague, two expats determined to ‘kiss and run’ find their philosophy derailed by a single night of connection.

#WSPit #W #A #Hi #R #L
#WSPitWIPs

"Hat" Coming soon. Moodboard - pics of the moon, Luna moth, deer skull, a stag at night, a bonfire, The Hatman and someone being plagued by Shadows

DONNIE DARKO X THE EXORCIST

Chris has always been haunted by Shadows, but now, after encountering the Hatman, he is possessed.
🍂 New England
💽 2000s
🖤 Goth kids
🌕 Moon Stuff
🧹 Witch Craft
😈 Eldritch Beings
Coming to a #RevPit near you.
#WISPit #H #Q #W #A

Oh hey, fistbump for both of our pacifist vampires

Mood board/Agent's guide for my novel CARGO - a queer SF/heist/romance - 113,000 words "Did you hear? There's a human on board." A graphic of the wall of a spaceship with sticky notes and polaroid photos taped up. There are twinkle lights hanging from the ceiling. alien ship's cook (fussy, anxious) + terrifying monster (ordinary human)

PITCH: Tai’s terrified of humans. Everyone is. Violent pack hunters, humans are notorious for their strength, sharp teeth, and carnivorous appetites. But the ship’s cook is safe among the multispecies crew of the cargo hauler Coreward Baker: everyone knows the warrior species rarely leave their own space. Then Captain Raz hires Clarke, a human horticulturist. Even after Tai overcomes their fear, they can’t stand Clarke. She’s bossy. Annoying. Useless in the galley, bad in a space suit. She might as well be cargo. Worse, she’s intent on befriending Tai—and why can’t they stop thinking about her, anyway? That’s when things go wrong. As Tai starts to realize their feelings for Clarke, they’re horrified to learn that nobody on their crew of dropouts and runaways is quite who they seem, least of all Clarke. And it’s no coincidence. Raz reveals they’ve each been handpicked for a heist he’s spent years planning—and no one’s allowed to say no. PRIORITIES: make dinner remain cozy haul cargo go for drinks pull off one last score try not to fall in love

FIRST PAGE: “Did you hear? There’s a Human on board.” I choked on my noodles and turned to stare at the diners at the next table. Like most of the restaurant’s patrons, the pair had hidden their profiles, a halfhearted attempt at anonymity. “Gross,” the speaker’s crewmate said, oblivious to my alarm. “I hope it leaves soon.” “Don’t let it hear you say that,” the first worker laughed. She made a show of looking for Humans, her eyes darting from table to table. It. I frowned. I knew the workers’ language distinguished between people and things, and ‘it’ was an unkind choice of words at best. The second worker shuddered. “I don’t know why we let them come here.” The first laughed. “Are you going to stop them?”

COMPS: Murderbot by Martha Wells Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers TROPES: Non-binary narrator masking anxiety with sarcasm lying to themselves non-human perspective (afraid of humans) neurodivergent main characters metaphorically disabled protagonist slow-burn friends-to-lovers and enemies to lovers in the same relationship disabilitynorm and queernorm setting found family loveable pet/terrifying monster

F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT

Ship's cook Tai is horrified to learn their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #WSPit #WSPitQuerying #Q #SF #A #R #LGBT #Dis #ND

A mood board of eight tiles and a centre square with lockpicking tools and ancient writing: 1. Always have an escape plan. 2. A swindler never lets herself feel like a fraud. 3. Don't look for the easy grab, look for the easy mark. 4. Never get involved with spirits. The pictures depict, clockwise from upper right: A) A city of canals and towering footbridges. There are minarets and steeples and red-tiled roofs. B) A market selling elaborate lanterns, all aglow. C) A porcelain and gold hand, reaching upwards. D) Two figures leaping across rooftops against the coming dawn. E) A pocketwatch--or is it? Constellations and continents cover the front, the body of the watch engraved with runes. It's sitting on ancient parchment. F) A wax stamp with removable chits that function as coins in a card game. G) The lords of the city overlooking grand canals and issuing edicts. They are dressed in fine red robes and silks. H) Assorted bones and shells used for divination and more.

When 16-year-old Nia picks the wrong pocket, she unlocks a magical talent she didn’t know she had. Now she’s posing as an heiress, a con man’s gone missing, and Nia and her friends are on the run with a living doll, pursued by gangs, magehunters, and the governor herself. #WSPit #W #F #LGBT #YA

Hey.

Even if you didn't write a single word today, you're still a writer.

Even if you dont write tomorrow. The whole week. Doesn't matter.

Word counts don't make you a writer, my friends 💜

Discovered that the key to enjoying pitch events is to be VERY SILLY and write from the pov of my characters

The bees!!! This always makes me chuckle, I’m obsessed